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Dr Dee Carroll invites readers to give the gift of emotional emancipation for the holidays. As holiday shoppers scramble to find the perfect meaningful gift for their loved ones, she recommends a gift that goes beyond fleeting pleasure: the priceless gift of transformation. It's a gift that embodies the holiday spirit of gratitude and giving.

Lily Barlow, The Mystery of Jane Dough by Carla Vergot is an engaging story about a quirky young lady who is fascinated by fictional bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. She has always wished for a more freewheeling, adventure-filled lifestyle outside her sleepy hometown of Marshall, VA. When she finally leaves the town behind to attend the University of Virginia, she's soon called back to keep the family bakery running after her dad suffers a heart attack. Feeling as though moving back in with her family would be a step backward, she rents an efficiency garage apartment on the edge of town. That's when Lily's propensity to turn everyday occurrences into true crime plots kicks in, and the real fun begins.

Creating Community Wherever You Are: Deepening Our Connections and Feelings of Belonging in a Fast-Paced World is available wherever books are sold.

For years, the U.S. illiteracy rate has remained stubbornly fixed at around 10%—right around the world average. That means 1-in-10 American adults struggle to read their bills, to fill out their ballots, and even to read a Christmas card. Part of the problem begins in childhood, where many low-income kids have virtually no access to age-appropriate books at home. One study of low-income neighborhoods found an average of just 1 book for every 300 kids—a tragic reminder that children's books are simply too expensive for most families struggling to make ends meet. But one new company is trying to change that.

In their latest blog post, Smith Publicity discusses how authors can use eBook pricing as a powerful marketing tool.

"Characters in children's books are almost always white, and it's a big problem." Washington Post, 2014. The problem is not new. In 1965 Nancy Larrick's article in the Saturday Review, "The All-White World of Children's Books" documented that just 0.8 percent of the children's books told contemporary stories about African-Americans. Things aren't much better today. When the Matt Maxx team asked minority children who their favorite black book characters were, they didn't have an answer.

Kids Yoga Stories is an exciting Boston-based company working strongly to encourage kids to explore yoga in a fun and carefree way, through a series of kids yoga books. Most recently, Kids Yoga Stories celebrated the exciting news that one of their yoga books for kids, Mia's Mountain Hike, won a Family Choice Award. The Family Choice Awards recognizes the best products, services and resources for all members of a family. This awards program, now in its 22nd year, is one of the most coveted, family-friendly consumer awards programs in the nation.

An Original Fictional Story by Robin Dyson Reveals The Truth About Christmas Eve This is the untold story of Mrs. Claus. She does more than bake cookies!

Creating Community Wherever You Are is the work of Deanna Jaya Nakosteen who has lived in intentional communities for over 30 years. She has witnessed what can be accomplished as a community and how we define it. The reader can learn the aspects of her alternative lifestyle that are unique and beneficial and those that can be challenging. Deanna provides tried-and-true solutions to these challenges as well as guidance for the reader who wants to integrate aspects of community into his or her own life.

Now seeking community support via Kickstarter, Faith to Strength is a book on relationships, marriage, transition and resilience. It's told in an unforgettable story following the life of a young woman, Justyne, whose longing for love ultimately reveals the true essence of her own faith and strength.

Aside from selling books, if one of an author's primary goals in a book publicity campaign is to use a book and media coverage as marketing tools to get more business, byline articles can be very effective.

Lifestyle Entrepreneurs Press, led by its founder and CEO Jesse Krieger, is happy to announce the release of certified life coach Rebecca Donovan's first book, Scorned, Torn and Reborn: Ending a Marriage with Integrity and Expanding into Your Better, Happier Life. The book takes from Rebecca's personal experience and offers her account of her own struggle getting over a divorce. Beyond that, the reader is also presented with hundreds of hours of conversations with friends, interviews with professionals, and other research. Its purpose is to help women in this group work through the changes that are occurring in their lives with dignity and grace, so they can come out on the other side of the transition whole and ready to embrace life and happiness.

Wenebojo is not only redefining the very foundations of storytelling but is also reinventing it. The revolutionary storytelling streaming service basically combines audio, visual, and text to create a truly immersive storytelling experience for all. Moreover, Wenebojo has recently launched a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter to raise funds and support, and the goal of this campaign is to raise a sum of $50,000.

Smith Publicity's podcast "All Things Book Marketing" is continuing to grow. Launched in August 2016, the podcast features a variety of industry experts and influential personalities and has now accrued thousands of plays and downloads.

Jesse Krieger and Lifestyle Entrepreneurs Press are happy to announce their newest title, Let go: Conquer Your Fear Without Quitting.

The certified life coach aims to support women through the emotional and psychological turmoil that occurs when undergoing a divorce.

63 Days is an inspiring new book by Aric Morrison, a New York based accomplished businessman and motivational speaker. The book is all about helping others and the author is essentially aiming at giving back to the community through the book. Moreover, the book is a journey that the author will be composing during his 50-state tour across the United States. The author has recently launched a crowdfunding campaign in this regard and aims at raising a sum of $20,000 on Kickstarter.

Richard Eckley is a UK based veteran self-employed carpenter, who has completely redesigned and transformed his own life by learning the art of making a choice. Richard has now decided to share his secrets of success with the world through a book titled 'Your 4 Keys to a Healthier Happier You', which is basically the ultimate guidebook to success.

Torben Rif is a martial artist who spent the better part of his life studying and teaching the ways of chinese martial arts and wudang tai chi chuan. Through his experience and involvement with such millenaire philosophies, he moved toward a path of self improvement, and ultimately helped others along the way. The result of that hard work comes to life in the form of his first book, Let Go: Conquer Your Fear Without Quitting, which hits the stores on October 23rd.

Dr. Melissa Caudle, Author, has completed her debut novel "The Keystroke Killer: Transcendence Part I": a science fiction psychological thriller and will be made available on October 31, 2018 on Amazon.com and numerous other online retailers. Published by Open Door Publishing Company, this novel is a masterpiece of twisted deception as Matthew Raymond, a private detective is locked into a maze of deceit after the disturbing 2053 murder of his sister, Livia. Rage filled Matthew igniting a search for her killer and to find answers to the mysterious questions that lurked around her death. Matthew soon realizes his problems went from bad to worse as he discovers himself immersed in a city where the wealthy and corrupt politician's rule and a serial killer on the loose with a weapon of mass destruction. Our hero plunges himself in a cunning game of cat-and-mouse when he stumbles across the Keystroke Killer exposing a secret device that makes the serial killer capable of sending people to the fourth dimension without a trace.

Lifestyle Entrepreneurs Press and its founder and CEO, Jesse Krieger, are happy to announce the launching of Work Like an Immigrant: 9 Keys to Unlock Your Potential, Attain True Fulfillment, and Build Your Legacy Today, the new book by Carlos Siqueira. Dubbed "The Mentor's Mentor," the book advances Carlos's long time endeavour to help others embrace their dreams and desires, going after their dreams, and ultimately achieving personal and professional success and fulfillment.

Arteries in Harmony: Defending Our Arteries, Protecting Our Lives And Preserving Our Happiness In The Era of Obesity And Diabetes, by Dr. Anthony Pothoulakis, is one of the latest releases off Lifestyle Entrepreneurs Press's stellar fall catalog. It was released on October 9th and it reached the #1 spot in Healthy Living in less than 24 hours. The book showcases Dr. Anthony's ideas, plans, and methods to fight the obesity and diabetes epidemic in the USA and serves as a guideline for those who seek healthier lifestyles without the constant need of seeing a doctor.

Humanity's One Thought is an inspiring organization that is dedicated to reaching every member of humanity for the benefit of all. It is a one of a kind project aimed at serving the world through books by collecting and archiving individual thoughts from each person who would like to have their thought recorded. The project is currently being crowdfunded on Kickstarter in a recently launched fundraising campaign, which aims to raise a sum of $50,000 through the collective community support.

Kids Yoga Stories and author Giselle Shardlow are thrilled to announce the official release of their newest yoga book for kids, 123 African Safari: A Kids Yoga Counting Book.

Writer and founder of TAL Creative, Teddy Leo, has created a comic book series to raise mental health awareness and encourage struggling kids to speak up. The series, set in a universe where the characters are all struggling with mental health issues, is the subject of a Kickstarter campaign. It aims to educate young people on what it's like to suffer from mental health conditions and to promote a kinder, positive society without the stigma still often attached to mental illness.